Forbes Gift Guide: How To Please The Discerning Motorist

Christmas is just the time to ask for all those treats and splurges your non-holiday willpower forbids you to indulge.

If you like cars and have some sense of taste, though, this presents a conundrum. Just because a pair of moccasins are called “driving loafers” or a certain coupe costs more than $50,000 doesn't mean they’re suitably refined for giving. Just because you appreciate a handsome vintage SL doesn't mean you’ll go for any old set of floor mats or driving gloves.

More importantly, can you trust friends and lovers to know the difference?

Let me help. Here are a dozen carefully selected items conducive to a sensible motoring lifestyle—but that also stand alone as handsome in their own right. Whether or not you have the car to go with them.